332 THE HISTORY OF CREATION. 



boreans of north-eastern Asia,, and the Esquimaux of the 

 extreme north of America, must probably be regarded as an 

 offshoot of this branch, which became peculiarly degene- 

 rated by unfavourable conditions of existence. The 

 principal portion of the Mongolian immigrants, however, 

 migrated to the south, and gradually spread over the whole 

 of America, first over the north, later over South America. 



The third and most important main branch of primseval 

 Malays, the curly-haired races, or Euplocomi, have probably 

 left in the Dravidas of Hindostan and Ceylon, that species 

 of man which differs least from the common primary form 

 of the Euplocomi. The principal portion of the latter, 

 namely, the Mediterranean species, migrated from their 

 primaeval home (Hindostan ?) westwards, and peopled the 

 shores of the Mediterranean, south-western Asia, north 

 Afiiea, and Europe. The Nubians, in the north-east of 

 Africa, must perhaps be regarded as an offshoot of the 

 primaeval Semitic tribes, who migrated far across central 

 Africa almost to the western shores. The various 

 branches of the Indo-Germanic race have deviated furthest 

 from the common primary form of ape-like men. During 

 classic antiquity and the middle ages, the Romanic branch 

 (the Graeco-Italo-Keltic group), one of the two main 

 branches of the Indo-Germanic species, outstripped all other 

 branches in the career of civilization, but at present the 

 same position is occupied by the Germanic. Its chief repre- 

 sentatives are the English and Germans, who are in the 

 present age laying the foundation for a new period of higher 

 mental development, in the recognition and completion of the 

 theory of descent. The recognition of the theory of develop- 

 ment and the monistic philosophy based upon it, forms the 

 best criterion for the degree of man's mental development. 



